Show Notes: Twelve
By The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Twelve. It's the Twelfth month, and we will not only talk about John Dickinson's Twelfth Letter From a Farmer, but also about the Eggnog Riot of West Point involving Jefferson Davis. And some Irish Christmas music as well. https://youtu.be/DKXNvlHVpmE?si=gjSYLY08e0uOGk1DTwelvehttps://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/the-twelve-myths-of-christmas/As you will discover, Christmas in colonial and revolutionary America was not the wholesome, family-oriented holiday that Americans celebrate today. In the eighteenth century, Christmas was often rowdy, drunken, wild, and dangerous.You could also read this list as a guide to celebrating Christmas like someone in eighteenth-century America. But be careful not to be too authentic. You could get arrested.Jefferson Davis And the Egg Nog Riot of 1826Jefferson Davis and the West Point Cadets had a little too much to drink on Christmas…









